From: Paganoni <noway@...>
Date: 2009-04-02T16:19:40+09:00
Subject: Nilling for GC

Hi, I've read that
http://whytheluckystiff.net/articles/theFullyUpturnedBin.html.
I have a background script that runs continuously and threads some tasks
on demand. I keep track of the launched tasks but, by keeping those
tracks, I certainly prevent tasks classes instances and threads
instances to be discarded by the garbage collector.

Data are stored like that :

@workers[:one_category] = []
@workers[:one_category] << {:started_at => Time.now, :thread => th}

So, I'm trying to setup a cleaner that would nil old references but I'm
lost in maps :

@semaphore.synchronize do
  @workers.map{|k,v| v.map{|worker| (Time.now - worker[:started_at] > 5
&& worker[:thread].status == false) ? (cleaned +=1; nil) : worker}}
end

When condition is true, cleaned is incremented but the nil does not
replace @workers entry.

So, I did another test :
hs = {}
hs[:toto] = []
hs[:toto] << {:kk => 28, :so => 'yes'}
hs[:toto] << {:kk => 30}
hs[:tata] = []
hs[:tata] << {:kk => 2}

hs = hs.map{|k,v| v.map {|a| a[:kk] > 28 ? nil : a} }
pp hs displays
[[{:kk=>28, :so=>"yes"}, nil], [{:kk=>2}]]

This one works right, for each hs entry, array is nilled if :kk value is
> to 28

Obviously there is a mistake somewhere in the first code source but I 
don't find it.

Any help appreciated, thank you